Publications

Recent Publications

• Erasing the Mark of a Criminal Past: Ex Offenders' Expectations and Experiences with Record Clearance
  By Ericka B. Adams and Elsa Chen
• You Win Some, You Lose Some: The Struggle to Understand Black Baltimore
  By Randol Contreras
• Empowerment or Dispowerment? The Portrayal of Black Women in Tyler Perry's Films
  By Helyne Frederick, Kishonna Gray, Amber Gadsden, and Myesha Mickens 
• Gender-Specific Conflicts Among Urban African American Youth: The Roles of Situational Context and Issues of Contention
  By Jennifer Cobbina, Toya Z. Like, and Jody Miller
• “I Would Be a Bulldog”: Tracing the Spillover of Carceral Identity
  By Patrick Lopez-Aguado
• Clothing Makes the Man: Impression Management and Prisoner Reentry
  By Calvin John Smiley and Keesha Middlemass
• Boko Haram in Nigeria: Statistical Trends, Patterns and Social Implications
  By Temitope Oriola and Marcella Cassiano
• Code of the Classroom? Social Disadvantage and Bullying Among American Adolescents, U.S. 2011-2012
  By B​ryan L. Sykes, Alex R. Piquero, and Jason P. Gioviano 
• Bienestar Emocional de Jovenes en Programas de Acogimiento Familiar: Un Estudio Exploratorio
• Emotional Well-Being of Youth in Foster Care: An Exploratory Study
  By Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Sherley Bedore, Gayle Davis, and Terri Hipps
• Culture and Formal Social Control: The Effect of the Code of the Street on Police and Court Decision-making
  By Daniel Mears, Eric A. Stewart, Patricia Y. Warren, Ronald L. Simons

Books

2017

• Big House on the Prarie:  Rise of the Rural Ghetto and Prison Proliferation
  By John M. Eason
• Convicted and Condemned:  The Politics of Prisoner Reentry
  By Keesha M. Middlemass
• Roots of African American Violence: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Diversity, and Racism
  By Darnell F. Hawkins, Jerome B. McKean, Norman A. White, and Christine Martin

2016

• Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
  By Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
• Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
  By Anthony Ryan Hatch
• From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America
  By Patrisia Macias-Rojas
• Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
  By Forrest Stuart
• Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio
  By Robert Vargas

2015

• No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing   
  By Waverly Duck
• The Routledge of Poverty in the United States
  Edited by Stephen Haymes, Maria Vidal de Haymes, and Reuben Miller
• Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System
  Edited by Devon Johnson, Patricia Warren, and Amy Farrell

2014

• Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live: Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins (Theoretical Criminology)
  By Kishonna Gray
• The Ex-Prisoner's Dilemma: How Women Negotiate Completing Narratives of Reentry and Desistance
  By Andrea M. Leverentz
• The Significance of Immigration for Youth and their Experiences with Violence and Juvenile Justice
  By Anthony Peguero and Jorge M. Chavez
• Human Struggling and Border Crossings
  By Gabriella Sanchez
• Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma
  By Jason Whitesel

2013

• Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider’s Journey
  By Robert J Durán
• Responding to School Violence:  Confronting the Columbine Effect
  By Glenn W. Muschert, Stuart Henry, Nicole L. Bracy, and Anthony A. Peguero

2012

• Juvenile Arrest in America: Race, Social Class, and Gang Membership
  By Michael Tapia

2011

• Discretionary Justice: Looking Inside a Juvenile Drug Court
  By Leslie Paik
• "Between Black and White": A Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
  Edited by María Vélez, Jody Miller, and Rod Brunson
• Could Quicker Executions Deter Homicides?:  The Relationship between Celerity, Capital Punishment, and Murder
  By Valerie L. Wright

2010

• Correctional Administration and Change Management
  By Martha Henderson Hurley and Dena Hanley

2009

• How Offenders Transform Their Lives
  Edited by Bonita Veysey, Johnna Christian, and Damian J. Martinez

2008

• Darfur and the Crime of Genocide
  By John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond

2007

• Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader
  Edited by Manning Marable, Keesha Middlemass, and Ian Steinberg
• How Drug Dealers Settle Disputes: Violent and Nonviolent Outcomes
  By Angela Taylor